Customize Workspaces

You can customize the tile region within your workspace. You can move the tiles within your workspace, add permissions to restrict access to your tiles, change the property of the tile region, and remove the tile region from the workspace.

By default, when you add a tile, all staff members have access to the component or tile until you add the security.

After you create the region, you can add a:

Custom Tile to the region

Custom Live Tile to the region

Preset Tile to the region

After you create a tile in the region, you can also customize the tile to:

Move the tile within the workspace region
Add security to a specific tile within the workspace region
Add properties to a specific tile within the workspace region
Remove a specific tile within the workspace region

Prerequisites

You must have:

System - Settings - Workspaces - View authorization
System - Settings - Workspaces - Manage authorization
System - Settings - Workspaces - New authorization
System - Settings - Workspaces - Edit authorization
System - Settings - Workspaces - Delete authorization

Your institution must have configured a workspace.(Select the Settings tile > expand System > select Workspaces.)

Access Method

Select the Settings tile > expand System > select Workspaces..

Procedure to Customize Workspace Region or Component

After you have created the regions, if you want to customize the regions, take the appropriate action.

Task

Action to Take

Add Tile

This customization option is only available for Add Tile Region component. You can add multiple custom tiles, custom live tiles, and preset tiles such as Class Scheduling, Document Tracking, Tasks, Settings and more under this region.

1. Click the menu icon .Anthology Student displays a drop down menu.

2. Select the Add Tile option from the drop down menu. Anthology Student displays a dialog box.

3. Take the appropriate action.

If you want to configure a custom tile, select the Custom Tile tab and specify the values.

Background Color Select the background color from the color picker.

CSS Font Class Indicate the CSS font class if you want to add a customized CSS font class. You can use any student Anthology Student icons or Font Awesome icons. If you want to add icons, follow the steps mentioned to add icons to custom tile.

Font Color Indicate the color of the font.

Hover Background Color Indicate the background hover color.

Hover Font Color Indicate the font color when the mouse hovers over the font.

Open tile contents in new tab Indicate whether you want to launch the URL with a new tab when you click the Tile within the workspace. If this option is not selected, when you click the Tile within the workspace, it launches the URL within the same window.

Tile Label Indicate the title of the tile.

URL Indicate the URL of the tile.

If you want to configure a custom live tile by entering a API URL that returns a count, select the Custom Live Tile tab and specify the values.

Background Color Select the background color from the color picker.

Font Color Indicate the color of the font.

Hover Background Color Indicate the background hover color.

Hover Font Color Indicate the font color when the mouse hovers over the font.

Query URL Indicate the API URL. For your example, if you have a query that returns the number of leads in the system then the count or total number from this query is displayed on the tile in the workspace. When you click the tile, the URL configured takes you to a report or view to see the details behind the count.

Query Interval in Seconds Indicate the interval or the number seconds the component will wait before it calls the API to get an updated count again. For example, every 60 seconds.

Tile Label Indicate the title of the tile.

URL Indicate the URL of the tile.

For example, if you want to add a tile that displays the count of books, you would specify the URL for the:

Location you want to direct the staff member to when they click the tile in the first URL field
Query that calculates the count of books in the second URL field

If you want to select a preset tile from the available list of tiles, select the Preset Tile tab. For example, you can add Students, Groups, Document Tracking, Tasks, Views, Configuration, Reports, Processes, Settings and Class Scheduling.

4. Click the Save button. Anthology Student displays the changes in the tile region.

Add an icon to a custom tile or custom live tile

If you have already added a custom or custom live tile, you can add a customized icon either from Fontawesome library or Anthology library.

To add a Fontawesome icon:

1. Navigate to https://fontawesome.com/.

2. Click the Icons tab on the top menu.

3. Explore and click the icon you want to add. The HTML code appears on screen.

4. Copy the icon name from the code, for example if the code is <i class="fa-thin fa-globe"></i>, then copy fa-globe.

5. Navigate to Workspaces

6. Click the tile menu tab.

7. Select the Properties option from the drop down menu. Anthology Student displays a dialog box.

8. Add the icon library, icon name, and icon size to CSS Font Class field in the following format: [icon library] [icon name] [icon size].

For example: fa fa-globe fa-3x

fa - refers to icon library (FontAwesome)
fa-hippo – refers to the name of the icon
fa-3x – defines the size of the icon (2x,3x,4x).

9. Click Save.

To add an Anthology Student icon:

Add the icon in this format [icon library] [icon name/icon group name] [icon-size]. For example, cmc-icon cmc-icons-student large

Add Security

You can add security to restrict the access of a specific component or a tile from the staff members.

1. Click the Add Security option from the drop down menu. Anthology Student displays the Recent Student Properties dialog box.

add security

2. In the Permit NSA Operations, type in the authorization. The pre-populated authorization appears on the field.

3. Click the add icon NSA Add icon . You can view the authorizations added above the Permit NSA Operations field. You can add or delete multiple authorizations.

set permissions

4. Click the Update button.

For information about the tasks you must complete to configure, manage security, and start and verify the installation of Anthology Student, see the Administration and Configuration Help for the version of the product using help.anthology.com.

Move Down

Click the Move Down option from the drop down menu. Anthology Student moves the tile down.

Move Up

Click the Move Up option from the drop down menu. Anthology Student moves the tile up.

Properties

1. Click the Properties option from the drop down menu. Anthology Student displays the Region Template Properties dialog box.

2. Review, specify, or change the following values.

Number of Tiles Across Indicate the number of tiles that you want to have across the workspace.

Title Indicate the title of the tile.

Wide Columns Select the check box to indicate that you want a wide column.

Remove Tile

1. Click the Remove Tile option from the drop down menu. Anthology Student displays the Remove Component dialog box.

2. Click the Yes button. Anthology Student removes the tile region.

Procedure to Customize Workspace Tile Located in a Region

After the tiles are added to a region, you can customize each tile as per your requirement. Click the menu icon to select the option you want to use from the drop down menu.

Task

Action to Take

Move Up your tile

Click the Move Up option from the drop down menu. Anthology Student moves the tile up.

Move Down your tile

Click the Move Down option from the drop down menu. Anthology Student moves the tile down.

Add Security to your tile

You can add security to restrict the access of a specific tile from the staff members.

1. Click the Add Security option from the drop down menu. Anthology Student displays the Recent Student Properties dialog box.

2. In the Permit NSA Operations, type in the authorization. The pre-populated authorization appears on the field.

3. Click the add icon NSA Add icon . You can view the authorizations added above the Permit NSA Operations field. You can add or delete multiple authorizations.

4. Click the Update button.

Properties

1. Click the Properties option from the drop down menu. Anthology Student displays the Region Template Properties dialog box.

2. Review, specify, or change the following values.

Background Color Select the background color from the color picker.

Font Color Indicate the color of the font.

Hover Background Color Indicate the background hover color.

Hover Font Color Indicate the font color when the mouse hovers over the font.

Tile Label Indicate the title of the tile.

URL Indicate the URL of the tile.

Remove Tile

1. Click the Remove Tile option from the drop down menu. Anthology Student displays the Remove Component dialog box.

2. Click the Yes button. Anthology Student removes the tile region.

Once you have customized your workspaces, you must perform the following steps:

You must associate the workspaces to a staff group, navigate to Add or Edit Staff Groups
Once you have associated, you and your staff members can begin to use your workspaces, navigate to Manage Workspaces